Vivekananda Mailing List-8/22/03

[Guest guest]

In every mind, utility, however, is conditioned by its own peculiar

wants. To men, therefore, who never rise higher than eating, drinking,

begetting progeny, and dying, the only gain is in sense enjoyments; and

they must wait and go through many more births and reincarnations to

learn to feel even the faintest necessity for anything higher. But

those to whom the eternal interests of the soul are of much higher

value than the fleeting interests of this mundane life, to whom the

gratification of the senses is but like the thoughtless play of the

baby, to them God and the love of God form the highest and the only

utility of human existence. Thank God there are some such still living

in this world of too much worldliness.